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On the morning of 27 and 28 July 2015, NRC’s distribution teams provided emergency food and hygiene items to more than 700 Iraqi families, living in and around the town of Shaqlawa, north-east of Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KR-I). The vast majority of families have fled during the past weeks from Anbar Governorate, seeking refuge in the KR-I. Aid organisations and the KR-I government are battling to provide adequate relief to the influx of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from across the country.

Distributing emergency aid to Anbar´s displaced families

A new beginning

Securing vocational opportunities for youth

In 2002 Maria Oneida Julio (34) had to flee the town of El Carmen in Colombia with her mother and children. After 13 years and being forced to flee one additional time, Maria found her way to the Norwegian Refugee Council´s (NRC) education program which opened up a door of opportunity for the single mother.

Distributing emergency aid to Anbar´s displaced families

A new beginning

Securing vocational opportunities for youth

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) commemorates one year since launching its humanitarian mission in Kismayo, South Central Somalia in 2014. A new centre for youth vocational training has been opened and 200 learners have enrolled for courses.

Distributing emergency aid to Anbar´s displaced families

A new beginning

Securing vocational opportunities for youth

Div Articles

In the last seven years, an estimated one person every second has been displaced by a disaster, with 19.3 million people forced to flee their homes in 2014 alone. Disaster displacement is on the rise, and as policy leaders worldwide advance towards the adoption of a post-2015 global agenda, the time has never been bett...

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is seeking to contract three (3) lawyers/law firms to provide legal services in the field of Housing, Land and Property (HLP) law in East Jerusalem, specialising in the area of demolition and planning law. The Society of St Yves is seeking to contract one (1) lawyer/law firm to prov...

20 years has passed since 8,000 Bosnian Muslims (nobody knows the exact number) were murdered in and around the city of Srebrenica. The Srebrenica massacre has been designated as the largest genocide in European postwar history.

Deborah is delighted. « The aid arrived at exactly the right moment. I bought what was really needed for the well-being of my family: a mattress, clothes, soap, two jerrycans, plates, pots and pans, and food … » she recounted. She is one of the 595 people from Mangina, North Kivu, who received NRC emergency cash and v...

A new report titled “Displacement and Housing, Land and Property Disputes in Puntland” concludes that the most effective way of ensuring security of tenure for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Puntland is through supporting the durable solution process, especially the local integration option.

“Aid to education in emergencies must be doubled to ensure that also children affected by conflict and crises can get an education”, said NRC’s Secretary General Jan Egeland, before the opening of Oslo Education Summit.